Artisan · Mây tre cói đan · Phú Vinh village

Nguyễn
Thị Lan

Rattan weaver · Fourth generation · 47 years at the frame

“My grandmother wove at this same doorway. The pattern is in my hands long before it is in my head.”

Her mark, a small woven tag tied inside the rim of every piece.

Craft: Rattan & bambooBaskets, vessels, market pieces
Workshop: Phú VinhThe doorway of the family house
Learned from: Her grandmotherat the same frame
Signature: The open weavelight enough to lift with a finger
On LangSoul: 3 worksTakes commissions

01 — The maker

Forty-seven years at one doorway

Lan has woven in the same doorway since she was nine. The light there is good until eleven, and the lane is quiet, and that is where the pattern lives.

Hands splitting a length of rattan cane with a small knife, strands peeling pale, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun

A sunlit doorway in Phú Vinh with a woven basket on the worn step, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun

Lan has woven in the same doorway since she was nine. The light there is good until eleven, and the lane is quiet, and that is where the pattern lives.

Phú Vinh does not teach weaving; children simply grow up inside it, and Lan was weaving market baskets for money before she was ten. Her grandmother sat in the same doorway with the same frame, and the open market weave Lan is known for is her grandmother’s.

Her baskets are the lightest in the village — she splits her own cane finer than the men do, she says, because her hands are smaller — and they are made to be used. A Lan basket should carry rice from the field, and it does.

Macro of an open hexagonal rattan weave with light through it, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun

Split cane drying on bamboo racks in a courtyard, long afternoon shadows, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun

02 — The works

Three works from the bench

All rattan, bamboo & sedge works

Market basket, open weave

Basket · Edition of 10

$160

Set of three nesting trays, mat weave

Trays · Edition of 8

$220

Storage chest, woven bamboo

Chest · Unique

$480

All rattan, bamboo & sedge works

03 — Commission

Lan takes commissions in the dry season

A set of baskets, a vessel to a size, a pattern you have seen on another piece. Tell us what you have in mind and we will carry the conversation to the doorway. Six to ten weeks from cane to crate.

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A letter from Phú Vinh

“The cane for your baskets is on the rack. Another week of sun and I can start; you will have the first one before the rains.”

— to a collector, April 2026.

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